Emily VanCamp Quotes
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
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Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.
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Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.
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I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.
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I'm known for my handwritten notes.
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You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.
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I suppose I am more comfortable with jazz because I have been playing it that much longer, and also because classical music is a much more disciplined genre.
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People pay lip service to saving the planet, but they don't – they fail to make the big leap that if you want to save the planet, kill your fucking self. The planet will be saved without you. And what a delightful place it'll be. Welcome. It's a new thing I'm working on, called 'The Comedy of Hate'. Join in.
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There is no [...] higher than the truth.
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I'd love to do some theater.
